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CLAIRE wins prestigious Artificial Intelligence prize News - 7 October 2021
AI networks CLAIRE and ELLIS have jointly won the prestigious German Artificial Intelligence prize. The WELT newspaper awarded the prize, worth 100,000 euros, last week in Berlin. The AI Prize is an innovation award for pioneering achievements in AI research and development.

Mark de Rooij Professor Artificial Intelligence and Data Theory
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery News - 23 May 2023
There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those molecules? Professor of AI and Medicinal Chemistry, Gerard van Westen: ‘I’m going to use artificial intelligence as the co-pilot to make an automated search.’…

Turning senses into media: can we teach artificial intelligence to perceive? News - 22 June 2022
Humans perceive the world through different senses: we see, feel, hear, taste and smell. The different senses with which we perceive are multiple channels of information, also known as multimodal. Does this mean that what we perceive can be seen as multimedia?

3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’ News - 4 October 2022
‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3 October University lecture in the Van der Werfpark. In the full marquee, he gets a laugh with this suggestion that artificial intelligence is comparable…

We are looking for: a Data Science & Artificial Intelligence student ambassador Announcement - 4 May 2023
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